David Black

“Dutch and Flemish media execs sharing projects on innovation in news”

How social media sites are paying content creators and aggregators.

Free audience measurement tool – like Alexa but with the ability to tag your site to improve accuracy.

“British Sky Broadcasting seized a commanding share of the UK’s online sports audience today by buying 365 Media for £96m. The betting and sports news websites operator brings 2.2m unique monthly users to the satellite group’s customer base.”

GateHouse Media is rolling out Creative Commons non-commercial use licenses across the 121 dailies and weeklies they own in Massachusets

“thousands of mini ‘newspapers’ will form around different geographies and topics. Aggregation sites will emerge to sift through and organize the reports and conversations going on in these small communities.”

McClatchy acquires citizen media sites FresnoFamous.com and ModestoFamous.com, founded by Jarah Euston, which operates in cities where McClatchy publishes daily newspapers.